Overview

I am a post-doctoral research fellow within the EPSRC Centre for Metamaterials Research and Innovation.  My research focuses on developing methods for designing wave-shaping materials across electromagnetism, acoustics and elasticity.

I completed my PhD at the university of Exeter in 2023 with my thesis entitled "Exploring the space of electromagnetic materials, with applications to antenna design".  In 2019 I graduated from the University of Exeter with a Masters degree in physics, also winning the Bertie Black prize for the highest performing finalist and the Newman prize for the best masters project in terms of ingenuity and intuition shown.  As part of my degree, I spent 14 months working at a science and technology consultancy in Cambridge, where I played a key role developing cutting edge technologies for diverse markets, such as medical devices and 3D printing.  The results of my work are currently in use with several clients worldwide, and some results have been patented.

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Publications

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2024

• Capers J, Stanfield L, Sambles J, Boyes S, Powell A, Hibbins A, Horsley S. (2024) Multiscale design of large and irregular metamaterials, Physical Review Applied, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.21.014005.

2023

• Capers JR, Patient DA, Boyes SJ, Hibbins AP, Horsley SAR. (2023) Manipulating the Quasi–Normal Modes of Radially Symmetric Resonators, 2023 Seventeenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials), DOI:10.1109/metamaterials58257.2023.10289621.
• Capers JR, Patient DA, Boyes SJ, Hibbins AP, Horsley SAR. (2023) Manipulating the Modes of Radially Symmetric Resonators, International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, pages 1417-1418.
• Capers JR, Patient DA, Horsley SAR. (2023) Manipulating the quasi–normal modes of radially symmetric resonators, Optics Express, volume 31, no. 22, pages 37142-37142, DOI:10.1364/oe.503349. [PDF]
• Capers J. (2023) Inverse Design of Thin-Plate Elastic Wave Devices, Physical Review Applied, volume 20, pages 034064-034064, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.034064.
• Capers J. (2023) Inverse Design of Thin-Plate Elastic Wave Devices.
• Capers JR, Stanfield LD, Sambles JR, Boyes SJ, Powell AW, Hibbins AP, Horsley SAR. (2023) Generalising the Yagi-Uda Antenna: Designing Disordered Metamaterials to Manipulate Antenna Radiation. [PDF]
• Capers JR, Boyes SJ, Hibbins AP, Horsley SAR. (2023) Multi–Objective Optimisation of Metamaterial Antenna, 2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 26th - 31st Mar 2023, 2023 17th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), DOI:10.23919/eucap57121.2023.10133632. [PDF]

2022

• Capers JR, Boyes SJ, Hibbins AP, Horsley SAR. (2022) Designing disordered multi-functional metamaterials using the discrete dipole approximation, New Journal of Physics, volume 24, no. 11, pages 113035-113035, DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/aca174. [PDF]
• Capers J, Patient DA, Horsley S. (2022) Inverse Design in the Complex Plane: Manipulating Quasi-Normal Modes, Physical Review A, volume 106, article no. 053523, DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.106.053523.
• Powell AW, Capers JR, Horsley SAR, Sambles JR, Hibbins AP. (2022) 3D printed metaparticles based on platonic solids for isotropic, multimode microwave scattering, 2022 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2022.
• Capers JR, Boyes SJ, Hibbins AP, Horsley SAR. (2022) Designing metasurfaces to manipulate antenna radiation, Metamaterials XIII, Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering, volume 12130, DOI:10.1117/12.2621160.

2021

• Capers J, Horsley S, Hibbins A. (2021) Designing Scattering Properties of Metasurfaces, International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, pages 948-949.
• Capers JR, Boyes SJ, Hibbins AP, Horsley SAR. (2021) Designing Metasurfaces to Manipulate Antenna Radiation, 2021 XXXIVth General Assembly and Scientific Symposium of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI GASS), DOI:10.23919/ursigass51995.2021.9560484.

2020

• Capers JR, Boyes SJ, Hibbins AP, Horsley SAR. (2020) Designing Collective Non-local Responses of Metasurfaces. [PDF]

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